Names We Use
5 Apr 2012 11:12![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muccamukkSo I was watching that Deeply Excellent clip from The Avengers, which if you haven't seen you really should. Nice call back to Marjorie Liu's last issue of Black Widow.
Anyway, I've noticed that the Clint/Coulson people over on tumblr seem to have taken the fact that Agent Coulson calls Hawkeye "Barton" and Black Widow "Tasha" as proof of ship. Which made me wonder what what Coulson has called everyone else. So I checked (in a cursory kind of way, and totally may have missed some).
He calls Iron Man "Mr Stark"
He calls Pepper Potts "Ms Potts" (Or "Miss Potts," not sure.)
He calls Thor "Donald" (which I find hilarious and really, really hope is in the new film he continues to do so)
He calls Doctor Jane Foster, PhD, "Miss Foster"
He calls Dr. Erik Selvig, PhD, "Dr. Selvig"
He calls Nick Fury "Director Fury"
And Hawkeye "Barton" and Black Widow "Tasha."
Notice something about that. Pepper gets treated same as Tony, but Jane's a PhD, and he doesn't call her "Doctor," ever. He doesn't call Agent Romanoff by either her last name or her title, he uses her first name.
Which is not trying to in any way generate Coulson hate. I like Coulson (though I'd rather have Sharon, because that would have been amazing if she were introduced so early, and only then, after she's been in more movies than he has, do they have a romance). I'm more irritated at the writers.
Anyway, I've noticed that the Clint/Coulson people over on tumblr seem to have taken the fact that Agent Coulson calls Hawkeye "Barton" and Black Widow "Tasha" as proof of ship. Which made me wonder what what Coulson has called everyone else. So I checked (in a cursory kind of way, and totally may have missed some).
He calls Iron Man "Mr Stark"
He calls Pepper Potts "Ms Potts" (Or "Miss Potts," not sure.)
He calls Thor "Donald" (which I find hilarious and really, really hope is in the new film he continues to do so)
He calls Doctor Jane Foster, PhD, "Miss Foster"
He calls Dr. Erik Selvig, PhD, "Dr. Selvig"
He calls Nick Fury "Director Fury"
And Hawkeye "Barton" and Black Widow "Tasha."
Notice something about that. Pepper gets treated same as Tony, but Jane's a PhD, and he doesn't call her "Doctor," ever. He doesn't call Agent Romanoff by either her last name or her title, he uses her first name.
Which is not trying to in any way generate Coulson hate. I like Coulson (though I'd rather have Sharon, because that would have been amazing if she were introduced so early, and only then, after she's been in more movies than he has, do they have a romance). I'm more irritated at the writers.
